# Things we just don't know **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017 "2002-12-16T04:20:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/61 "2002-12-20T11:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medievalist2 \* > \*\*Where is the Holy Grail? \*\* The Virgins have it, to get it you have to spank them!! ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/62 "2002-12-20T11:10:44Z")
Ok, looking back that was not really an answer to the OP, but I can’t think of anything. Sorry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/63 "2002-12-20T13:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? \*\* One of my friends in college decided to do a statistics project on this. A bunch of us had to count the licks it took us to get to the center. I believe it took me something around 370, but this was a few years ago, so I don’t exactly recall. I’m pretty sure, though, that it took me more than 300 and less than 600. And it shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes or so to do this yourself, so if you’re particularly bored you can try it out. And **Zev** took my question. If I asked you to answer “no” to this yes/no question, would you? ---
**Author:** ![ranwashingt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@ranwashingt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ranwashingt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/64 "2002-12-20T14:18:56Z")
Why is so hard to read sideways? And why can’t I reset these damn margins? Rand…way too much to ponder with a terrible crick in yer neck. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/65 "2002-12-20T14:57:40Z")
Why does my apparently eternally 21 year old brain keep making promises that my 54 year old body can’t keep? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/66 "2002-12-20T15:31:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVGuy \* > **What is the average flight velocity of a fully laden swallow?** What do you mean? An African or European swallow? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/67 "2002-12-20T17:50:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hoopy Frood \* > \*\*One of my friends in college decided to do a statistics project on this. A bunch of us had to count the licks it took us to get to the center. I believe it took me something around 370, but this was a few years ago, so I don’t exactly recall. > > I’m pretty sure, though, that it took me more than 300 and less than 600. And it shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes or so to do this yourself, so if you’re particularly bored you can try it out. > \*\* The other night, in the grocery store, I saw a gizmo that might help. You insert the stick end of the TRP in this socket and it would keep track of the licks, showing them on an LCD. I wasn’t curious enough to actually buy one to find out how it detected the licks. DD ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/68 "2002-12-20T18:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Clothahump \* > \*\*Why does my apparently eternally 21 year old brain keep making promises that my 54 year old body can’t keep? \*\* If you are a male, and I suspect you are, it is because your brain is supplied oxygen by the penis. Therefore, your brain is oxygen deprived leaving you to perennially make juvenile decisions. That’s just my theory, your mileage may vary. Now back to a regularly scheduled eternally burning question. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/69 "2002-12-20T19:18:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tony Montana \* > \*\*I can answer that one. Because every once in a while someone will think they’re being clever and actually buy 10 packages of buns and eight packages of hotdogs.huge conspiracy… \*\* Why not buy 4 packages of of hotdogs and 5 packages of buns? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/70 "2002-12-20T19:53:32Z")
Who _did_ shoot the deputy? Why didn’t that guy in the desert just give the damn horse a name? ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/71 "2002-12-20T20:45:47Z")
What is the answer to the ultimate questions of Life, the Universe and Everything? ---
**Author:** ![astraeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@astraeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astraeus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/72 "2002-12-20T21:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hoopy Frood \* > \*\*If I asked you to answer “no” to this yes/no question, would you? \*\* Yes. But you didn’t ask me to, you just asked me what I would do if you did. To respond to the OP: Why do Rob Schneider, Carrot Top, and Steve Guttenberg keep getting parts in movies? Why do people listen to Rush Limbaugh? Why don’t the American people seem to care that the Bill of Rights (except for the Second Amendment, naturally) is being systematically eroded by the Bush Administration? -astraeus ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/73 "2002-12-20T21:22:48Z")
What happened at Tunguska? ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/74 "2002-12-20T22:49:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Encinitas \* > \*\*What is the answer to the ultimate questions of Life, the Universe and Everything? \*\* 42 Why do people have to make this into their own personal political agenda or soap box? What is the definition of life? Why are you in my house? Why can’t I be either consistently intelligent or consistently stupid? Where have all the flowers gone? Why are so many people amused by singing hamsters? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/75 "2002-12-21T01:45:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*What happened to D.B. Cooper? \*\* (Sorry to do this but …) I imagine that some skilled investigative journalist could find out, D. B. just being some guy from Portland the police briefly investigated. Now what ever happened to Dan Cooper, that’s tougher. ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/76 "2002-12-21T02:44:46Z")
Why is a dandelion cnosidered a nasty “weed” instead of a pretty “flower?” Why do elevators have up AND down call buttons. I mean, if I’m standing on the second floor of my library, isn’t it unimportant whether I let the elvevator “know” where I’m off to next since it has to pick me up on Floor Number Two first? Since Cecil has covered the calories of cum, what is the calorie count of snot. R3ecently witnessed one of my nephews doing some “nose-mining…” Patty ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/77 "2002-12-21T03:10:44Z")
Why do evil men prosper? ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/78 "2002-12-21T06:13:54Z")
Who is Jimmy Hoffa and why is he buried in my back yard? ---
**Author:** ![Raini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@Raini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raini)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/79 "2002-12-21T06:19:09Z")
If seven-eleven is open 24hrs a day, seven days a week…why do they have locks on the doors? If sourcream is cream that has gone sour…why does it have an expiry date?? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Trari\_de\_Reeson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Count\_Trari\_de\_Reeson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Trari_de_Reeson)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/80 "2002-12-21T14:09:26Z")
QUOTE]Why do atheists do good if they believe there is no reward, or punishment for doing bad? [/QUOTE] I can answer this one: it is because true morality is not based on the threat of punishment.[ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=5)